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[6] [7] In this same manner many of the Russian loan-words become an English–Russian hybrid, with Russian origins, and English spellings and pronunciations. [8] A further example is the Russian word for 'head', golová , which sounds similar to Gulliver known from Gulliver's Travels ; Gulliver became the Nadsat expression for the concept 'head'.
This article discusses the phonological system of standard Russian based on the Moscow dialect (unless otherwise noted). For an overview of dialects in the Russian language, see Russian dialects. Most descriptions of Russian describe it as having five vowel phonemes, though there is some dispute over whether a sixth vowel, /ɨ/, is separate ...
Ye (Є, є) appears after E and represents the sound /jɛ/. E and И (И, и) both represent the sound /ɪ/ if unstressed. И when stressed represents the sound /ɨ/, the same as the traditional Cyrillic letter Yery (Ы). I (І, і) appears after И and represents the sound /i/. Yi (Ї, ї) appears after I and represents the sound /ji/.
The Cyrillic script (/ s ɪ ˈ r ɪ l ɪ k / ⓘ sih-RIL-ik), Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia, and East Asia, and used by ...
Because Russian borrows terms from other languages, there are various conventions for sounds not present in Russian. For example, while Russian has no [ h ] , there are a number of common words (particularly proper nouns) borrowed from languages like English and German that contain such a sound in the original language.
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Russian distinguishes hard (unpalatalized or plain) and soft (palatalized) consonants (both phonetically and orthographically). Soft consonants, most of which are denoted by a superscript ʲ , are pronounced with the body of the tongue raised toward the hard palate , like the articulation of the y sound in yes .